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Whoop Whoop! 🥳 We got a GOEXPERIMENT for generic methods!
This will make it much easier to prepare my PRs that should only get merged in Go 1.27 😅
This is extremely worrying to me. Not being able to use any service using reCaptcha is… pretty disruptive, to say the least. *Really* hope the EU stomps this one out – but even if it does, that will take a long time…
https://privatecaptcha.com/blog/google-cloud-fraud-defence-wei/
Okay, I can't possibly be the first one to have come up with this, but.
You know when billionaires talk about how AI is going to generate trillions of wealth and make all workers obsolete and anyways, AGI™ is just around the corner?
I propose we call that "Slopaganda"
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@iaruffell@mastodon.scot @dr2chase@ohai.social I'd say the cynical answer is "because they expect *this* law will actually be enforced".
But I guess that's what you where getting at anyways.
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Was man stattdessen tun sollte?
Selbst so gut wir können die Nachfrage senken. D.h. Kraftstoffsteuer *rauf*, nicht runter, von den Einnahmen günstiges DE-Ticket und Mobilitätsgeld für Geringverdiener zahlen, Tempo 100 auf der Autobahn, Autofreie Sonntage, whatever.
Nachfrage runter drehen ist AFAIK tatsächlich so oder so schwierig. Aber *Kraftstoff billiger zu machen*…
Seriously, was haben die denn schon wieder geraucht und warum glaubt noch irgendwer, CDU kann Wirtschaft?
By the way: one very specific thing we learned from WW2 is that bombing civilians of a totalitarian regime does *nothing*.
There is no "morale" to destroy, they can not pressure their government to stop the war. It's just needless cruelty, fostering never-ending resentment (ask the people of Dresden).
There's a reason (well… debatable) the US dropped *two* nukes, three days apart: the Japanese regime didn't care about one of their cities getting wiped out.
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(yes, I also guessed 81 is the window seat. Which was kind of awkward, because there was someone already sitting there who was at least as confused as me)
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@ZachWeinersmith This is, in my opinion, one of the funniest aspects of political economics: that China is probably the best empirical argument in favor of capitalism, yet capitalists are unwilling to use it - because it means admitting that capitalism and democracy are orthogonal.
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Honestly, "prediction market" is such a dystopian newspeak for "unregulated betting portal"
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@lemgandi @sophieschmieg It's not just that. Shuttering USAID the way they did is going to cause millions of deaths from TB, Malaria and other infectious diseases. Few historical figures have been as effective in enacting policies to get people killed.
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@LangerJan@chaos.social Ja. Ich finde es so ein Armutszeugnis, dass der mMn sinnvollste, vernünftigste Politiker der letzten 20 Jahre so weg gemobbt wurde.
Also, nicht mal weil er Grün ist. Sondern einfach, weil er der Einzige ist, der irgendwie versucht hat einen ehrlichen Diskurs zu pflegen.
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Places to put this (in order of pettiness):
- Teams bug reports
- Teams status message
- E-Mail signature
- T-Shirt
- Every Blog post
- Every Mastodon post
- Commit messages
- Code comments
(also disclaimer: I failed Latin, this is Google Translate)
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@dahie That is, to my understanding, US propaganda to justify an unspeakable war crime. It's long, but I recommend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCRTgtpC-Go
I find the case he's building pretty compelling.
Dropping the Bomb: Hiroshima & Nagasaki
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@ericwastl@hachyderm.io Honestly, good changes, in my opinion. I thought the global leaderboard should've gone a few years ago anyways, when LLMs started being a thing.
And I did end up conflicted because doing AoC always took too much time towards the end, but I also didn't want to stop halfway.
So really, I welcome both of these changes.
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This isn't specific to AI, it applies to other things as well. "This steak", "this plastic bag", "this drive"…
But tech people should know, that small numbers become large at scale, and vice-versa. Saying "this prompt used…" is like saying "we serve millions of requests a month" (so single-digits per second, at best) in reverse - just trying to make the number look small, instead of large.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @quixoticgeek@social.v.st @vaurora@mstdn.social Yeah, definitely agree.
That's also my disagreement with @StefanThinks@beige.party FWIW: the literal entire point of taxes is to force people to pay for stuff they don't want to pay for. There's a *lot* of people who don't want to pay for "big bird and healthcare", for example. At the *very* least, we need taxes to price in externalities.
That we are paying for the wrong things is, as you say, a political problem. And capitalist anarchism isn't the answer.
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@LaF0rge I know little about the situation, but as a German: Yes. If it's 1942 and you found someone working at Thyssen or something contributing to the Linux kernel, you should absolutely kick them out. Some of our current problems are due to Nazis not getting kicked out vehemently enough after the war.
The naivete of your comparisons makes me a bit angry TBQH. Russia is actively fighting an unjust war today - including in the information sphere. Germany hasn't been doing that for 80 years.
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@IsaacOstlund@mastodon.world Not a fan of Musk or his companies, but this reads like a lack of numeracy.
You are comparing absolute $-amonuts, when the relative numbers - what percentage of their budget comes from subsidies - seems far more relevant.
If I ran a lemonade stand, with lemonade made from 100% state sponsored lemons, it would be more "state funded" than either NPR or Musk's companies, even if the absolute amount would be less than $100.
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@Ashedryden@xoxo.zone It's either a mistake with the translation, or genuinely the most genius, well-executed open ending I've ever seen.
I mean, the point of an open ending is to leave the reader uncomfortable and force them to think more about the book. That… *definitely* worked
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@ZachWeinersmith The thing that irks me about the "i is the solution to X²+1=0" explanation is, that it is unclear *which* of the two it is (and whether it matters).
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@kortschak@infosec.exchange 🤔
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I find it visually pretty clear. Especially compared to the digital numbers on the outbound train.
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…she checked and the printed version ends at the same point 😕 That's… huh.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @quixoticgeek@social.v.st This seems a bit reductive as well. Representatives do more than simply vote and even then, they don't necessarily vote with their block. Even just a primary candidate who doesn't win has *an effect* - and that could be almost anybody.
The alternative to "if enough voters" is authoritarianism and certainly not what I would prefer.
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@Ashedryden@xoxo.zone Have you watched it more than once? Because I tried several times and I never managed to finish. I always got bored and turned off by all the weird religious stuff¹ - and surprised how early it started.
[1] I should specify: it's not *that* it's religious, it's that it's religious in a weird way. And yes "weird" is not a helpful adjective ^^
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@kortschak 🤔 TBH after reading it and giving the context I now have about the circumstances of when and how it was written, I find that dubious.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prince#Other_interpretations reads a bit like motivated reasoning.
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@mattblaze@federate.social @fraggle@social.coop Can't leave any witnesses who could attest to the people on the boat being harmless.
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@cstross@wandering.shop @quixoticgeek@social.v.st @vaurora@mstdn.social
That's MMT, isn't it? Isn't the mainstream economic view still, that money is created by commercial banks via credit?
I'm not saying you need to subscribe to mainstream theory (I certainly don't), but it seems a bit strong to make normative statements in this tone, about a heterodox theory. Seems more useful to be pluralist about it.
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@Ashedryden@xoxo.zone It annoys me TBH because I absolutely *love* the first season and the Sci-Fi elements in general.
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@kortschak I mean, I'm biased. I just *really loved* Ada Palmer's writing. Which is enough to humanize Machiavelli and make him a pretty sympathetic figure - not "good", but her thesis is that he was basically a patriot, wanting what's best for Florence.
If I wanted to overcome my biases, I would have to read *significantly* more than I'd be willing to - I'm fine just accepting my limitations here ^^
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@cstross@wandering.shop @StefanThinks@beige.party @quixoticgeek@social.v.st @vaurora@mstdn.social But that's a very different statement. I don't think anyone doubts that government "plays a role". But if banks create money by credit, the amount of money created depends on demand for credit. Hence central banks try to control money supply by setting the interest rate.
I don't think that's good. Or that MMT is wrong as a theory. But it seems wrong calling something a "misunderstanding" that *in practice* matches the currently implemented policies.
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Whoops, maybe not *that* sweet a boy that Machiavelli 😳 Who'd have thunk?
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@henryk @danimo @marix Das Problem in das ich eben laufe ist, dass ich das durchaus verinnerlicht habe und nun nichts mehr ändern kann.
Weil ich es nicht ändern will, ohne zu verstehen, warum es so ist – und weil mir niemand sagen kann und nirgendwo dokumentiert ist, warum es so ist.
Und ich vermute, dass sich das durchaus verallgemeinert. Das klingt ja alles gut und schön in der Theorie und ich stimme ja an sich zu. Aber ich glaub, die Praxis wehrt sich da mehr, als man will.
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@maxotaf@mastodon.gamedev.place Also the same EU that wants digital sovereignty and reign in the power of US tech